A lot of people will always say…– Mary Beard
A lot of people will always say, ‘I really know nothing about the ancient world.’ But there’s lots and lots of things people know. Partly,
A lot of people will always say, ‘I really know nothing about the ancient world.’ But there’s lots and lots of things people know. Partly,
When I am making a TV show, I am looking for engagement, not admiration.
However judicious academics may be – not like me – they are all taught to see through crap.
It’s great fun being an academic because you have a certain licence to be a bit of a joker.
I’m an academic. I argue; I engage with people.
What is the role of an academic – no matter what they’re teaching – within political debate? It has to be that they make issues
Nobody but an idiot would pretend that they had an error-proof way of choosing the ‘best’ out of hundreds of perfectly qualified applicants – not
I don’t think that we are completely dominated by what we have inherited from the past, but it is the case that as far back
What I find very interesting is, we’re not enthralled by the ancient world, and we’ve escaped all kinds of ancient preconceptions and assumptions and prejudices.
In 1984, I returned to Newnham College at Cambridge University to teach after completing my Ph.D. there a couple of years earlier. Almost all of
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